Chart Farts ®

Medical errors aren’t supposed to be funny, right?

Wrong. ChartFarts.com is the home of funny medical charting errors, or chart farts®. A chart fart™ is a medical blooper of diction. Chart farts ® may come from patients or their families mispronouncing medical terms or from actual health care professionals who write, dictate, or transcribe these medical malapropisms in hospital charts.

Chart Farts® are Medical Malapropisms from Actual Hospital Charts

Though you may find the word “fart” inappropriate or crude, we feel that no English word better describes the manner in which a chart fart punctuates the flow of reading a professional medical document. ChartFarts.com contains thousands of original chart farts collected over a period of years. Here is a small sample of our collection:

“unresponsive and in no distress”

“nonverbal, noncommunicative and offers no complaints”

“irregular heart failure”

“The need to maintain dialogue with the family regarding the appropriatenss of limiting futile care to the patient is noted”